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| Posted on 14-Jan-2001 13:22 GMT by Christian Kemp | 43 comments
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In a recent MOTD, I stated that the advertiser situation was bad, but I didn't expect to make less than 5$ in 13 days. So I decided to pull the only remaining advertisement banner, but I am hoping to find an alternative means of at least covering my online cost (various virtual servers, phone bill, etc.). I haven't given up the hope that Amiga companies (Amiga, Haage&Partner, and many others) will finally understand that the market would be even less alive without Amiga news sites, and finally decide to make suitable contributions to the news sites they've been using for years to post their press releases and announce their products on.
Do I sound slightly bitter? Perhaps. But with a phone bill of 100$ every month, an upcoming domain renewal for 90€, a website generating 5$ out of over 50,000 pageviews is just ridiculous...
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| Advertisers needed : Comment 34 of 43 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by David Connolly on 15-Jan-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 33 (Wayne Hunt):
Yes, I don't know if I can put it as eloquently as Wayne, but the truth is there is a lack of money to be made in the classic market. It hasn't been profitable for games companies for around five years in truth, and even hardware manufacturers are struggling. So I quit the market because of the difficulties in one sense and then complain about Amiga,Inc and other companies not wanting to advertise despite rates well below average. In truth if anyone's to blame it's the very people shouting from their high horse about things but not actually buying any products. The facts speak for themselves: If I can offer 15,000 Amiga users for 95 pounds a page and no company will do it, what else can it mean.
But this is not to slag off Amiga users, I say IF anyone is to blame! In truth it's 15 years old. Why do new products like the Playstation 2 come along. In theory it would be easier for Sony to stick to the Playstation 1 and rake in the money. If it were that simple! It's not, and with technology older than most things out there (especially in the computing world) you can expect the worst. Hmmm. Now if we could only work out how prostitutes have lasted all these years ;-) |
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